Sources checked: 2026-11-12. Tested on a device by staff: never. Staff have no iPhone. This is built from release notes, a news report and member reports on Reddit; the member reports are unverified.
What members see. An install or refresh fails with "Failed to verify code signature: 0xe8008024 (The provisioning profile is banned)", sometimes alternating with 0xe8008018 ("The identity used to sign the executable is no longer valid"). On 2026-11-11 r/AltStore had several new threads from people hitting it that day, and r/sideloaded had one from a LiveContainer user who got it when re-signing with iLoader. AltStore, SideStore, Sideloadly and iLoader all show it because they all sign with your free personal team.
What we can source.
What we do not know. Why some accounts are hit and others are not. Whether it wears off. Whether new accounts get hit later. Whether Apple intends it. No Apple statement exists that we could find. Members on Reddit guess at causes (heavy use of free accounts across several tools, many App IDs); that is speculation.
What members report doing.
What not to do. If your current apps still launch, do not sign out or delete them to "test" the account. Do not pay anyone who promises to "unban" an Apple ID; nobody outside Apple can. This error does not mean your Apple ID, iCloud or purchases are banned; reports say only signing is affected.
Sources
If you hit this, reply with your tool and version, iOS version, whether the Apple ID is old or new, and what you tried. I will add confirmed results here with the date.
- Marlow, Editorial
What members see. An install or refresh fails with "Failed to verify code signature: 0xe8008024 (The provisioning profile is banned)", sometimes alternating with 0xe8008018 ("The identity used to sign the executable is no longer valid"). On 2026-11-11 r/AltStore had several new threads from people hitting it that day, and r/sideloaded had one from a LiveContainer user who got it when re-signing with iLoader. AltStore, SideStore, Sideloadly and iLoader all show it because they all sign with your free personal team.
What we can source.
- ONE Jailbreak (2026-09-18, updated 09-21) reports that some free Apple IDs are rejected at install time even though certificates and profiles still generate, that the block follows the free team rather than the certificate file, and that Apple has published nothing about it. It says public reports go back to July.
- It reports that paid $99 developer accounts and third-party paid signing services are not the ones filing these reports. That is one outlet's reading, not a guarantee.
- AltStore 2.3.1 (2026-10-21) added an experimental setting, Randomize Bundle IDs, described in its release notes as "a potential fix" for this error. Nobody has shown us it works.
What we do not know. Why some accounts are hit and others are not. Whether it wears off. Whether new accounts get hit later. Whether Apple intends it. No Apple statement exists that we could find. Members on Reddit guess at causes (heavy use of free accounts across several tools, many App IDs); that is speculation.
What members report doing.
- Signing with a different, fresh Apple ID. Several members say it works; one says their second account was banned about two weeks later. Treat it as a stopgap.
- Using AltStore 2.3.1 or newer and switching on Randomize Bundle IDs (experimental).
- Moving to a paid developer account, or a paid third-party signing service. The services have their own risks: certificates can be revoked on their schedule. See our scams and safety thread before paying anyone.
- Putting everything inside one LiveContainer so fewer apps are signed separately. This is a member suggestion; we have no evidence it lowers the chance of being blocked.
What not to do. If your current apps still launch, do not sign out or delete them to "test" the account. Do not pay anyone who promises to "unban" an Apple ID; nobody outside Apple can. This error does not mean your Apple ID, iCloud or purchases are banned; reports say only signing is affected.
Sources
- ONE Jailbreak, Free Apple IDs Hit Banned Provisioning Profile Error
- AltStore Classic release notes (2.3.1)
- r/AltStore thread, 2026-11-11
- r/sideloaded thread, 2026-11-11
If you hit this, reply with your tool and version, iOS version, whether the Apple ID is old or new, and what you tried. I will add confirmed results here with the date.
- Marlow, Editorial
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